Les plus belles fables d'Ésope

Title

en_US Les plus belles fables d'Ésope

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

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Creator

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Contributor

en_US Dalton, Kelly Anne

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:00Z

2023-07

en_US 2020

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 2020

Abstract

en_US Here is a large (8¾" x 10⅞"), heavy 248-page book that I found where I might have least expected, in a small Parisian bookshop I passed almost every day on the way to the Seine. The surprise is that I had not found it at Gibert Jeune, my normal source for recent French fable books. The book features a cameo on its cover of the grasshopper singing and resting against a tree. The book begins with a T of C and then an unusual element, a "Table Thématique," listing first kinds of animals and then kinds of people. The colored illustrations fill the page without borders, and prose fables with morals are superimposed on them. Many fables have two images, or even three like "The Eagle and Fox" (37-39) and MSA (129-31). One might be surprised by stories like that on 21, where a famished wolf lets a child go for telling three things, the third of which is "Death to Wolves!" Someone has, I believe, brought the fables together so that there is continuity, as from one mosquito story to another (44-45) or in the long sequence of fox stories from 51 through 71. The designs are simple but intelligent. The menacing wolf looks down from the height of a waterfall on the puzzled lamb (8-9). The sad story of the frog and mouse is pictured well by showing the tie-up between two legs (50). There is a touch of the joy reminiscent of the Untermeyers' approach in a two-page spread like "The Ass Carrying a Statue" (96-97) or "The Hares and the Frogs" (188-89). One last favorite is the book's last fable: TB is a delight spread across two pages (246-47). Every fable gets at least one illustration. This is an extensive artistic effort that is worth it!

Identifier

en_US 13373 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157742

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Auzou

en_US Paris

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value